Mini arcade cabinets

[Pocket_Lucho] has really done a fantastic job on this one. He’s making miniature arcade cabinets(translated) from old consoles. This post is mainly talking about a Sega genisis version, but he’s also done one for the PC engine(aka turbografix 16). He takes us through pulling RGB video strait from the chip as well as harvesting buttons from a cheapo all in one arcade controller. For the screen he’s using a PSone portable LCD, pretty much un modified. What really stands out is the final layout. He has built tiny arcade cabinets, about a foot tall, to house them. These are amazingly awesome and we want one. No, we want an entire mini arcade of them. You can see a video after the break.

What a surprise seeying my mini cabs here! I like doing arcade cabs but I already have 2 ‘big’ cabs and no more free space for another one so… I have to make ‘pocket’ cabs! My goal is to finish the 16 bit generation, actually pc-engine/turbografx, megadribe/genesis and neo-geo are finished, super nintendo/super famicom comes next and later a pocket mame cab using a mini-itx board will come… stay tuned ;)

What did you use for a Neo-Geo? One of the smaller one-slot arcade PCBs (MV-1C etc)? Is the cabinet the same size, or did you have to make it bigger? I’m interested in what sort of hacking and rearranging you had to do to your Neo-Geo’s PCB…